{"id":555566,"date":"2026-07-18T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555566\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:23:22","slug":"fearne-cotton-told-off-by-vatican-guard-for-breaking-strict-rule-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555566\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearne Cotton told off by Vatican guard for breaking strict rule | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/fearne-cotton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fearne Cotton<\/a> has revealed that she was told off by a guard at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/vatican\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican<\/a> after she broke a strict rule.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on her Happy Place podcast, the 44-year-old recalled that during a recent trip to Italy, she was \u201cdesperate\u201d to take a picture of The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got massively reprimanded, shouted at by a very burly Italian security guard, which should have freaked me out and made me go, \u2018Oh god, I\u2019m so sorry,\u2019 but instead, I wanted to go, \u2018F*** off!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton said she was \u201cso riled\u201d after the incident, adding that she didn\u2019t understand what the problem was.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors cannot take photos in the Sistine Chapel, as conservators cite that constant camera flashes can degrade the artworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fearne Cotton has revealed that she was told off by a guard at the Vatican after she broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3858,234933,234935,234932,65676,31724,5040,219835,219839,93,2956,2957,165341,234931,6285,61,177709,60,46258,3319,177713,234934,177712,266,233803,3405,850,5041,219836,812,199360],"class_list":["post-555566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-entertainment","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-ie","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-ireland","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-usa","tag-world-sports-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}